On Tuesday even his so-called "enemies" at CNN were praising him — today those on his own side of politics are calling him "abhorrent".

With the story dominating cable news in Washington, America was treated to the extremely awkward spectacle of the President being peppered with questions about whether he was racist while standing with members of the family of Reverend Martin Luther King.

A far cry from the optimism and hope of Tuesday's morning with its new tone.

If the President was able to achieve immigration reform, it would've been a truly historic breakthrough — one that successive Republican and Democrat presidents have been unable to achieve.

To get the deal he wants, Mr Trump needed to have Democrats to agree to fund his border wall in return for solving the decades-old problem of what to do with undocumented migrants who came to the United States as children.

A deal is not impossible, but the recriminations and controversy add some extra poison to the political well.

Senator Durbin said that after yesterday's meeting any hope for a deal "died".

Not to mention the hurt those on the end of the remarks say it has inflicted on them.